Joya Taft-Dick

I am a writer & communications professional with an interest in gender analysis, violence prevention, intersectional feminism - and good craft beer.

[Robert Inlakesh @falasteen47]

I am accused of pro-Palestine bias as a journalist

To be clear. When you see kids shot in front of you. When close friends are blown to pieces with their children. When you lose 100+ extended family members & colleagues…

You can’t be “objective”, but you can tell the truth.

[Zareen. @b_zareen]

For as long as I live I will never forget that we have created a world where children have to hold a press conference saying they want to live.

[Joya Taft-Dick @joyz44]

So, so cool.

[Lucy Corne @LucyCorne]

Jessi Flynn, MD of @KwezaBrewery at the opening ceremony of Rwanda's first craft brewery: "We are the first country in the world whose craft beer scene is being started by women".

Whoop!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Gaza:

More kids killed than the annual number of kids killed across all conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children)

More UN workers killed than in any comparable period in the UN’s history (UN)

More journalists killed than in any conflict period since 1992 (CPJ)

[Joya Taft-Dick @joyz44]

Born poor, stay poor: what my $120,000 student debt says about class in the US https://t.co/FonpfO7n5V

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Wow. This new Democratic ad calling out Daniel Cameron, the GOP nominee for Kentucky Governor, is one of the powerful I’ve ever seen.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

This tedious rehashing of rape apologist lines—“he never did that to me;” “why didn’t she go to the police,” etc—is not meant to actually persuade. God knows feminists have spent years debunking it all ad nauseam. It is meant only to express the speaker’s loyalties, and it does.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

A pro-choice thread about why I love fact-checkers!

Last week, Kellyanne Conway and the president of the probably the most powerful anti-abortion org in the country wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

I'm sorry that Mitch McConnell appears to have suffered a medical incident. He'll have the best health care that tax-payers' money can buy, and return to work to abolish medicare and social security for the rest of us.

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

Recent discussions reminded me of this:

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

The left is calling for greater investment in renewable energy and the right is burning Barbies, shooting Bud lights, and touting the upsides of slavery, so I can see how both sides are to blame for all this polarization

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

The ppl who banned Black ppl from schools, jobs, military, & public spaces, lynched Latinos, banned Asian immigration, locked up Japanese ppl, broke hundreds of treaties with Native Americans—& are now banning teaching that history—want you to stop making everything about race.😐

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

.@RonDeSantis, your willful ignorance is unacceptable. Chattel slavery wasn’t an innocent jobs program—it was a crime against humanity.

Black people did not benefit from being owned, dehumanized, raped, beaten, terrorized, and killed for generations.

[Joya Taft-Dick @joyz44]

wait, what?! a UTI vaccine?!

[Bo Bolander @BBolander]

so apparently there's a vaccine for utis now AND you can get the hpv vaccine even if you're up to 45 years old and these two things are not universal knowledge so, y'know, just putting that out there

[Andrea R MD, @andrear9md.bsky.social @AndreaR9Md]

Dear media,
Please and I beg you, get the facts. There is no such thing as abortion at the time of birth much less after birth.
Why the fuck are you letting republicans repeat this nonsense?
Do your job.

[Emily Atkin @emorwee]

Last month, Ohio's former speaker of the House was given 20 yrs in prison for taking $61m in bribes to pass one of the worst anti-climate laws in the nation.

The execs who orchestrated the bribes haven't been charged.

But we're arresting climate protesters left and right. (1/2)

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

Capitalism is such an inefficient and wasteful system. So much so that roughly a third of the world's food is ultimately discarded before consumed. This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons a year. Meanwhile, billions of people struggle with food insecurity.

[Joya Taft-Dick @joyz44]

omg...

[Garnet Henderson garnethenderson.com on Bluesky @garnethenderson]

“kids at Angola prison” is easily one of the most horrifying phrases one can read

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

It’s hellish. I have 5% of my timeline full of intelligent people explaining why most of us might all be dead within a decade, 20% is scientists saying we can avert the worst if we act, which we’re not, and 75% completely oblivious that any of its happening at all. #climate #2023